The Rick Smith Show

Civil Right Tour Holiday Encore Full Three Hour Show for New Years Day

2016-01-01

Happy New Year!!!!!! Today we're looking back at the best of the People's Tour with some of our favorite interviews and why. Hope you enjoy and we look forward to an amazing 2016.Claude Barnes, Researcher at the Jubilee Institute in Greensboro, North Carolina joins Rick to talk about his being elected to student body president as a write-in candidate and how that event turned into he and his classmates being tear gassed and some arrested.

Happy New Year!!!!!! Today we're looking back at the best of the People's Tour with some of our favorite interviews and why. Hope you enjoy and we look forward to an amazing 2016.

Claude Barnes, Researcher at the Jubilee Institute in Greensboro, North Carolina joins Rick to talk about his being elected to student body president as a write-in candidate and how that event turned into he and his classmates being tear gassed and some arrested.

Lewis Brandon, Grassroots History Coordinator at the Beloved Community Center sits down with Rick to share his story of being a part of history joining four fellow North Carolina A & T sit in of the lunch counter in Greensboro.

William Saunders was an organizer of the famous 1969 SEIU 1199B Healthcare Workers Strike at the Medical University of South Carolina. He explains how the organizing process that happened in the two years leading up to the strike.

Kerry Taylor is a local labor historian from The Citadel and on the fast part of our tour through Charleston, Kerry recalls the city's early history, Denmark Vesey's planned slave rebellion, how Hampton Park was used during the Civil War and the liberation of Beaufort, South Carolina

In our second interview with Kerry Taylor, a historian from The Citadel, we dive into Charleston's rich labor history. Besides the 1969 healthcare workers strike at the Medical University of South Carolina, Kerry talks about some of Charleston's other important labor actions, especially the 1944-1945 American Tobacco Cigar Factory Strike, which was the origin for the famous "I Shall Overcome" protest song

Stephanie Cobert, Managing Director of Historic Stagville takes time to sit down with Rick to talk about the largest plantation in North Carolina history and their mission to keep the history alive.

Hezekiah Watkins is a life long Jackson, Mississippi resident and civil rights activist. At 13, he was arrested and placed on death row for watching the arrival of Freedom Riders in Jackson, Mississippi.

Fate Morris Shares His Heartbreaking Story on Losing His Sister Cynthia Morris in the Bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church